November 30, 2014

“BELIEVE” Maja Salvador ! The first OPM album to be mastered for iTunes

Maja
Salvador will be leaving a huge footprint on the music scene with her
debut album “Believe”.
And it is not loosely said so. As apart from the album being
certified Gold last June (only 2 months after the official release)
and obtaining an official Vevo channel on YouTube with views summing
up to almost 6 million, the album takes the cake off the plate of its
contemporaries once again by becoming the first OPM album to be
mastered for iTunes.

A
“mastered for iTunes” song is a digitally downloadable track on
iTunes, taking legs of optimization to make every bit of it in the
highest definition possible and as close to how artists and their
production team intend every song to be heard as possible, while
keeping the music file size down for portability and for more
efficient digital distribution.

The
calibre that “Believe” has set for itself makes it well-worthy of
this iTunes mastery. As it geared away from traditional
instrumentation and instead adopted modern production, it has become
the most ideal vehicle to drive our eardrums to crave newness from
the OPM department. All the while the album never lost sight of what
is really important: it’s an OPM record. Note that all songs were
penned in Filipino to butter up Maja’s new-fashioned Pinay image
interbred with pop-house-R&B sound that could run parallel with
American Top 40 tracks.This
leap of Maja’s music to verge into the digital age is a gutsy deal
in changing the game face of the local music industry not just in the
manner of distribution and consumption of music, but also in its
production and ultimately, the artistry. Now you can listen in hi-def
to the album with crystal-clear vocals, smoother strums and deeper
thumps as if each of the tracks just got off the LASIK chair.

A
milestone like this wasn’t far from Maja’s horizons to begin
with. The way she wants things to happen in her music career is to
take the qualitative side of the road, obvious in the production of
her songs and the videos for them: never dry and juiceless. Maja
believed that “Believe” would go places, and the album took the
entire industry with it.

There’s
no denying it. “Believe” is a key part of OPM music history now.The mastered for iTunes “Believe” contains the original tracklist:

KILIG

HALIKANA (feat. Abra)

WALA NA BANG PAG-IBIG

DAHAN-DAHAN

URONG-SULONG

BUONG GABI (feat. Project Pinas)

BONUS TRACKS: KILIG (INSTRUMENTAL)

DAHAN-DAHAN (INSTRUMENTAL

Hear the difference by getting “Believe” off iTunes via https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/believe/id849627454